They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.

Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.

Haste makes Waste

It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Every man…is, of common right, and by the laws of God, a freeman, and entitled to the free enjoyment of liberty.

From a persuasion that equal liberty was originally the portion, it is still the birthright of all men.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. […] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.